Common name:
Traveller's-joy
Family:
Scientific name:
Clematis vitalba
Main flower color:
Range:
Mostly in England and Wales; less common in southern Scotland and Ireland, and absent from the far north
Height:
Up to 20 m - a climbing plant
Habitat:
Woodland, hedgerows, grassland, especially on calcareous soils
Flowers:
Creamy-white, up to 20 mm in diameter, with four (occasionally five) oblong sepals, hairy on both surfaces, and several dozen narrow, strap-shaped stamens. Flowers form in open clusters at the upper leaf nodes
Fruit:
Achenes, with long, feathery plumes
Leaves:
Opposite, hairless to sparsely hairy, light green, pinnately divided into three or five ovate leaflets, sometimes lined by a few large teeth
Season:
July to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
